Date: Tuesday 13 July
Time: 21:00
Venue: President’s Palace Courtyard – Valletta
Tickets: €15, reduced €10
The music of one of the twentieth-century greatest geniuses Igor Stravinsky features prominently in the 5th edition of the Festival with two concerts dedicated to his music. The highlight of the first concert is Les Noces, a most remarkable achievement in which Stravinsky’s Russian musical inheritance is presented without any ‘civilising’ filters. The music is spectacularly scored for solos, mixed choir, percussion and four pianos. The programme includes also Bartok’s Rumanian Folk Dances which together with other shorter pieces by Stravinsky shows the touch of modernism in transforming and regenerating existing musical material.
Programme:
Stravinsky /Gesualdo di Venosa Tres Sacrae Cantiones (1959)
Stravinsky Serenade in A for piano (1925)
Stravinsky Russian Credo (1932/r.1964)
Bartok Rumanian Folkdances (1915)
Stravinsky Les Noces (1923)
Orietta Manente: Soprano, Silvia Schiavoni: Mezzo-Soprano, Massimiliano Tonsini: Tenor, Danilo Gabriele Serraiocco: Bass
Pianos: Cristina Biagini, Emanuela Longo, Marco Marzocchi, Maurizio Paciariello
Percussion: Rodolfo Rossi, Pietro Pompei, Pierluigi Zago, Giuseppe Salvagni, Gianluca Manfredonia, Daniel Cauchi